Example sentences of "back of [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaping from the cabs , Rocky and his fellow trucker ran to the back of their rigs and threw open the rear doors . |
| 2 | The two dogs were whining softly in the back of their throats and sniffing the air as if distressed . |
| 3 | Toucans collect them one at a time , throwing them up in the air and deftly catching them at the back of their throats . |
| 4 | The two children , Christopher and Mathew Keys were in the back of their parents ' Metro saloon when it went out of control on the A424 near Burford . |
| 5 | U-boat alley was the gap in mid-Atlantic where they did n't have air cover from Britain or Canada , but Preston always imagined it a bit like the alley at the back of their houses with a U-boat at each end firing torpedoes at Grandad as he hopped and scuttled down it on his way to the Turk 's Head . |
| 6 | And even as far back as the second century , Britannia graced the back of their coins . |
| 7 | And even as far back as the second century , Britannia graced the back of their coins . |
| 8 | If he starts playing with the keys attached to the back of their belts , they push him away . |
| 9 | Cashmere sports jackets hung on the back of their chairs , insurance against an encounter with air-conditioning . |
| 10 | It is true that he knew the Prime Ministers of the later 1940s and early 1950s , Attlee and Churchill , personally , and he was not averse to breaking protocol by raising policy matters with them behind the back of their Minister of Fuel and Power on a few occasions . |
| 11 | ASENIOR police officer and his wife and two children escaped injury yesterday after a bomb containing up to 10lb of high explosive exploded at the back of their bungalow in Drumbo , south of Belfast . |
| 12 | They did n't want any cops pulling them over and asking them what they were doing with a man tied to a chair in the back of their truck . |
| 13 | When gannets are on the ground , you ca n't miss the yellowy orange band of colour on the top of their heads which reaches down the back of their necks , and the unusual blue-grey hue of the beaks and feet . |
| 14 | People who 've seen it say it makes the hair stand up on the back of their necks . ’ |
| 15 | personally do is as a mo er er for my kids that I teach is they write their homework in the back of their exercise book so their homework diary is the back you know |
| 16 | They used to have loudspeakers on the back of their machines that bawled out backchat and delivery instructions to everyone within a radius of a hundred yards . |
| 17 | Teenagers with sporty slogans on the back of their jackets sat attentively amid the rest of the crowd . |
| 18 | This position would be retained and they proceeded each to rest his chin on the other 's shoulder — heads nuzzled close together like horses lodged in affection — and then swing their arms in order to take a grip on the flattened back of their opponent . |
| 19 | It is thought the only survivor of the five escaped certain death by jumping out of the back of their workers ' van into a garden . |
| 20 | Mark Pollitt and Phil Baxter delivered little Simone Turner in the back of their ambulance . |
| 21 | Then the woman watched a gunman fire single bullets , one by one , into the back of their heads . |
| 22 | All four had been shot through the back of their heads with a single bullet as they slept . |
| 23 | Tigers stalking workers have not attacked those wearing face-masks on the back of their heads . |
| 24 | whether that means anything to people who live in Bishop 's Stortford but I 've always lived in Chelmsford and people who wore their hat sort of at a flaunty angle on the back of their heads were always seem to wearing their hats in the Hollywood fashion . |
| 25 | So I reckon ( hope ! ) the Guardian has got hold of this off some Derby source who is talking out the back of their heads . |
| 26 | How many times have you been walking with someone who does that all the time , regardless of climatic considerations , and wanted to deliver a rabbit punch to the back of their neck when they stop for the tenth time that day and begin the ponderous unclipping of their rucksack ? |
| 27 | Comfort them physically — a hand gently cupping the back of their neck , or placing your arm loosely around their upper back may be very soothing . |
| 28 | I never wanted to go to university although I do know , however , that my mum and dad always had it in the back of their minds that I would go . |
| 29 | At the back of their minds many girls feel that perhaps , even if they told their parents , they would fail to understand , or take in a situation so different from their own educational experiences . |
| 30 | Helping a Third World child had been in the back of their minds for some time , but it was an ActionAid advertisement in their Sunday paper that spurred them into action . |